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Legal and Labor Studies

Legal and Labor Studies is a research topic within Industrial relations. Science Explorer counts 4.2k research works in it since 1952. 11.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of labor relations, digital economy, and platform work. It delves into topics such as collective bargaining, worker rights in the gig economy, remote monitoring of workers, social policy implications, and the geopolitical context within the European Union.

  • Labor Relations
  • Digital Economy
  • Platform Work
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Worker Rights
  • Gig Economy
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Social Policy
  • Geopolitics
  • European Union
Research works
4.2k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
458
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal and Labor Studies

Which countries lead Legal and Labor Studies research?

By volume, Italy and France publish the most (387 and 113 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 387 works
  2. 2 France 113 works
  3. 3 Spain 63 works
  4. 4 United States 30 works
  5. 5 Brazil 16 works
  6. 6 Mexico 16 works
  7. 7 ?? 12 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 Germany 7 works
  10. 10 Belgium 7 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Italy: 58.5%France: 17.0%Spain: 9.5%United States: 4.5%6 others listed: 10.4%59%largest
Italy387 · 58.5%France113 · 17.0%Spain63 · 9.5%United States30 · 4.5%6 others listed69 · 10.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Legal and Labor Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Florence publishes the most Legal and Labor Studies research, followed by University of Milan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of FlorenceItaly 36 works
  2. 2 University of MilanItaly 33 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
  4. 4 University of BolognaItaly 18 works
  5. 5 University of Bari Aldo MoroItaly 15 works
  6. 6 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 15 works
  7. 7 University of MacerataItaly 12 works
  8. 8 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 10 works
  9. 9 University of PisaItaly 10 works
  10. 10 University of SienaItaly 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal and Labor Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal and Labor Studies include Francesco Saverio Violante and Daron Acemoğlu.

  1. 1 Francesco Saverio Violante Italy 181k citations
  2. 2 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Legal and Labor Studies?

The most cited paper in Legal and Labor Studies is "Employment Technology and Development." (Frances Stewart, Avery Sen, 1976), with 428 citations. Next come "Racism and Migration in Western Europe." (266) and "Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail: une prospective européenne" (188).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Employment Technology and Development. Frances Stewart, Avery Sen · The Economic Journal Open access Mar 1976 428
2 Racism and Migration in Western Europe. Marco Martiniello, John Wrench, John Solomos · International Migration Review 1995 266
3 Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail: une prospective européenne Alain Supiot · Revue internationale du Travail Mar 1999 188
4 Problems and Solutions in the Quality of Working Life William A. Westley · Human Relations Feb 1979 181
5 Spain: the very model of the modern elite settlement Richard Günther · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 29 Nov 1991 123
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Legal and Labor Studies research done?

The largest centres of Legal and Labor Studies research in 2022-now are Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy), Florence (Italy) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Florence, Bologna and Milan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MilanItaly 53 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 52 works
  3. 3 FlorenceItaly 46 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 27 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 23 works
  6. 6 BolognaItaly 20 works
  7. 7 NaplesItaly 19 works
  8. 8 BariItaly 16 works
  9. 9 PisaItaly 14 works
  10. 10 MacerataItaly 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FlorenceIT · 45.9 works75×
  2. BolognaIT · 20.1 works26×
  3. MilanIT · 52.8 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal and Labor Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Legal and Labor Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bologna, University of Milan and University of Florence score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 8.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TrentoUniversity of BolognaUniversity of FlorenceUniversity of Milan
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of BolognaItaly 71.311.8%32.8×18 +33.9%
2University of MilanItaly 69.59.4%76.8×33 -2.1%
3University of FlorenceItaly 68.310.9%90.8×36 +284.8%
4University of TrentoItaly 50.013.2%49.6×9 +66.3%
5University of Bari Aldo MoroItaly 49.97.9%72.3×16 +22.9%
6Sapienza University of RomeItaly 39.310.0%19.9×15 -37.7%
7University of TurinItaly 38.06.3%25.2×9 +11.2%
8University of MacerataItaly 34.18.4%435.5×12 +154.5%
9University of PisaItaly 29.30.3%32.7×10 +55.8%
10University of Naples Federico IIItaly 26.97.3%18.2×9 -38.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Legal and Labor Studies, country by country

Is Legal and Labor Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Legal and Labor Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0038% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Legal and Labor Studies0.0030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Legal and Labor Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Legal and Labor Studies9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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